World War II Women in the Workforce

What does WAVES stand for?

• Women After Volunteering Every Saturday

• Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service

• Women Accepted for Vector's Evil Singing group

• It's "waves" like on the beach

What does WAC stand for?

• It's actually spelled "wack"

• Women's Army Corps

• Women's After-school Care

• Women's Auxiliary Corps

Who was Nancy Harkness Love?

• The first female pilot in the Army Air Forces

• The woman who modeled for the "Rosie the Riveter" poster

• The first black female officer in the U.S. Navy

• A nice woman who made cookies for the soldiers

Women worked in all of the following during World War II except...

• Factories and Farms

• American Red Cross

• Libraries

• The Military

What percentage of the workforce was made up of women at the end of the war in 1945?

• 12%

• 33%

• 75?

• 100%